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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Sunday 19 April 2026

26 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

26

drone flights over Wichita that day.

8:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:53 pm.

23 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 26 times on Sunday 19 April 2026, the first at 8:15 am and the last at 5:53 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Events69%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Call for service12%
  4. Search4%

Flights, in order

26 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:15 amCall for service9 min0a5a335b
8:26 amCall for service11 minae6947b6
11:26 amEvents21 minb7753868
11:50 amEvents25 min7a034f50
12:00 pmEvents23 mineb87af95
12:16 pmEvents24 minfe40a648
12:23 pmEvents25 min46d6cc13
12:39 pmEvents23 min06304ab3
12:46 pmEvents24 minec76d5cf
1:05 pmEvents26 minf2ecfb3d
1:11 pmNot stated22 min0d527cec
1:31 pmEvents19 minf2ad623b
1:32 pmEvents24 min213f2a15
1:53 pmNot stated24 minaf6d7692
1:58 pmNot stated23 min03f610e1
2:17 pmEvents23 minbf434846
2:21 pmNot stated24 mined67c034
2:40 pmEvents21 min943bc853
2:44 pmEvents22 mina63a6b65
3:02 pmEvents25 min280f93d3
3:06 pmEvents26 minc4285af8
3:28 pmEvents22 min78640e7f
3:32 pmEvents24 minf7b022fa
3:50 pmEvents22 min76fda087
5:44 pmCall for service1 min 42 s4f2bb598
5:53 pmSearch7 min2b8acd5b

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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